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We study statistical properties of stochastic variations in pulse arrival times, timing noise, in radio pulsars using a new analysis method applied in the time domain. The method proceeds in two steps. First, we subtract low-frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Steve Price , Bennett Link , Steve Shore , David Nice

Motivated by recent realizations of qubits with a readout by macroscopic quantum tunneling in a Josephson junction, we study the problem of barrier penetration in presence of coupling to a spin-${1\over 2}$ system. It is shown that when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Ankerhold , Hermann Grabert

We investigate the role of quantum fluctuations in topological quantum phase transitions of quantum spin Hall insulators and quantum anomalous Hall insulators. Employing the variational cluster approximation to obtain the single-particle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-08 Jan Carl Budich , Ronny Thomale , Gang Li , Manuel Laubach , Shou-Cheng Zhang

In papers on primary state diffusion (Percival 1994, 1995), numerical estimates suggested that fluctuations in the space-time metric on the scale of the Planck time (10^-44s) could be detected using atom interferometers. In this paper we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ian C. Percival , Walter T. Strunz

In electron transport, the tunnelling time is the time taken for an electron to tunnel out of a system after it has tunnelled in. We define the tunnelling time distribution for quantum processes in a dissipative environment and develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Samuel Rudge , Daniel Kosov

To push commercial electronics beyond its current size limits, atomic-scale communication channels and logic units need to be designed, making the use of quantum entities an imperative. In this regime, quantum fluctuations naturally become…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Leonardo Banchi , Joaquin Fernandez-Rossier , Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin , Sougato Bose

How much time does a tunneling wave packet spent in traversing a barrier? Quantum mechanical calculations result in zero time inside a barrier . In the nineties analogous tunneling experiments with microwaves were carried out. The results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Guenter Nimtz

The phenomenon of spin transfer torque (STT) has attracted a great deal of interests due to its promising prospects in practical spintronic devices. In this paper, we report a theoretical investigation of STT in a noncollinear magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Xiaobin Chen , Chenyi Zhou , Zhaohui Zhang , Jingzhe Chen , Xiaohong Zheng , Lei Zhang , Can-Ming Hu , Hong Guo

How much time does a wave packet spent in tunneling a barrier? Quantum mechanical calculations result in zero time inside a barrier. In the nineties analogous tunneling experiments with microwaves were carried out confirming quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 Guenter Nimtz

Currently, spin tunneling at very low temperatures is assumed to proceed as an incoherent sequence of events that take place whenever a bias field h(t) that varies randomly with time t becomes sufficiently small, as in Landau-Zener…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julio F. Fernandez

It has been shown in Phys. Rev. Lett., 108 170402 (2012) (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.170402), that quantum tunneling is instantaneous using a time-of-arrival (TOA) operator constructed by Weyl quantization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Philip Caesar Flores , Dean Alvin Pablico , Eric Galapon

We study the effect of spin-orbit coupling on quantum gates produced by pulsing the exchange interaction between two single electron quantum dots. Spin-orbit coupling enters as a small spin precession when electrons tunnel between dots. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Stepanenko , N. E. Bonesteel , D. P. DiVincenzo , G. Burkard , Daniel Loss

In first-passage percolation, one assigns i.i.d. nonnegative weights $(t_e)$ to the edges of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and studies the induced distance (passage time) $T(x,y)$ between vertices $x$ and $y$. It is known that for $d=2$, the fluctuations…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Michael Damron , Christian Houdré , Alperen Özdemir

Digital quantum simulation relies on Trotterization to discretize time evolution into elementary quantum gates. On current quantum processors with notable gate imperfections, there is a critical tradeoff between improved accuracy for finer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Hongzheng Zhao , Marin Bukov , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

A continuous complex rotation of time $t\mapsto t\EXP{-i\theta}$ is shown to smooth out the huge fluctuations that characterise chaotic tunnelling. This is illustrated in the kicked rotor model (quantum standard map) where the period of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amaury Mouchet

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the full counting statistics of bidirectional single-electron tunneling through a double quantum dot in a GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructure and compare with predictions of the fluctuation theorem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-31 Y. Utsumi , D. S. Golubev , M. Marthaler , K. Saito , T. Fujisawa , Gerd Schön

Time dependence for barrier penetration is considered in the phase space. An asymptotic phase-space propagator for nonrelativistic scattering on a one - dimensional barrier is constructed. The propagator has a form universal for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Marinov , Bilha Segev

Mesoscopic systems provide us a unique experimental stage to address non-equilibrium quantum statistical physics. By using a simple tunneling model, we describe the electron exchange process via a quantum coherent conductor between two…

We offer a general approach to calculation of single-electron tunneling spectra and conductance of a shuttle oscillating between two half-metallic leads with fully spin polarized carriers. In this case the spin-flip processes are completely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Cohen , V. Fleurov , K. Kikoin

We provide a full account of our recent report (EPL, 141 (2023) 10001}) which constructed a quantized relativistic time-of-arrival operator for spin-0 particles using a modified Weyl-ordering rule to calculate the traversal time across a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Philip Caesar Flores , Eric A. Galapon